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Joseph
Haske’s first language of art was Abstract Expressionism.
He was attracted to the drama and excitement of it, and then came
to believe that just the act of painting was subject matter enough.
Eventually he began searching for symbols, potent Jungian archetypes
that would express the powerful dichotomy he felt between the spiritual
and the profane. Even though there are no explicit images, his work
has often been described as having a sexual content. He considers
the work of the past several years to be more about sensuality.For
the past ten years he has also been drawn to Italian painting, the
early Renaissance frescos of Giotto and Fra Angelico in particular
but also the fragments and paintings from Pompeii.
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